Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions has launched teamgeomedia.com the new online communication channel for the Team GeoMedia program. The Web site boasts a secured member area with comprehensive sales support, technical information, and technology updates. Teamgeomedia.com also serves as a valuable, one-stop geospatial information and data resource site for Intergraph customers, GIS professionals, and the general public. Visitors will benefit from these key areas: Team GeoMedia Solutions Catalog - An essential resource for locating Team GeoMedia members - Registered Solutions Providers and Registered Solutions Centers - and their applications and services that are powered by GeoMedia(r) and datasets that are ready for GeoMedia. Team GeoMedia SalesNet - A secure online site for Registered Solutions Provider and Registered Solutions Center program members that includes exclusive geospatial sales and marketing information such as sales tools, technical briefs, white papers, and brochures to boost partner marketing and business development efforts. Team GeoMedia TechNet - A secure communication channel for Registered Solutions Providers, Registered Solutions Centers, and Strategic Partners. Members also have access to a knowledge base that provides diagnostic assistance, informational queries, and an online log for support requests.
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www.teamgeomedia.com
Top Stories
DeLorme launches new software for Aerial Photography Flight Planning
DeLorme, a leading innovator in digital mapping and location technologies, has announced the availability of XMap PhotoFlight, a software tool for aerial photographers, photogrammetrists, and surveyors, which automatically lays out accurate aerial photography flight plans in minutes including flight lines, trigger points, and altitude. DeLorme's XMap PhotoFlight is the only system on the market that uses a corrected USGS Digital Elevation Model to accurately position flight lines and optimal photo trigger points to ensure the desired photo overlap will be achieved. XMap PhotoFlight creates an aerial photography mission plan over a specified geographic region. Once the planner specifies a geographic polygon, flight line bearing, and photo scale, the Xmap PhotoFlight application looks at the digital elevation data to determine the altitude and placement of each flight line to ensure the proper side-to-side overlap and scale. After the flight lines are set, the trigger points for the photos are calculated. The elevation data is again used in the calculation to ensure that the proper overlap along the flight line is achieved. It includes features to help users easily generate block and corridor flight plans, mark project boundaries using advanced draw tools, or import ShapeFiles directly to the map. Each flight plan produces files containing flight line details for CCNS and trigger points for the camera system.
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www.delorme.com/photoflight
MapInfo Announces Participation in OpenLS Initiative
MapInfo Corporation has announced its participation in the Open Location Services (OpenLS) Initiative for the development of open specifications in support of mobile location services. The OpenLS Initiative, sponsored by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC), addresses the development of specifications that enable the interoperability and integration of geospatial data and technology in the mobile location services market. As a Principal Member of the OGC, MapInfo is an active participant in technical and management activities of the Consortium. Through its participation in the OpenLS, MapInfo will provide precise recommendations to assist Initiative sponsors in the development of specifications that will benefit the entire location-aware industry.
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www.openls.org & at
http://www.mapinfo.com/.
GeoConcept unlocks power of street-level mapping for Homecheck's Web service
By using the Homecheck Professional Web site (
www.HomecheckPro.co.uk), people in the property business wanting to check up on environmental issues related to house sales or purchases can now find the exact location of any premises that interest them online on a detailed street-level map. They can also download a low-cost but wide-ranging report on the property which includes the same detailed map. Users of the free Homecheck version of the service have also gained new mapping functionality. Anyone checking on how a property relates to any nearby floodplain can now see the exact shape and extent of the floodplain on an online map. These developments are the latest in a series of enhancements to the Homecheck and HomecheckPro services that have been made possible by the use of GeoConcept Internet Server (GCIS), the Web-oriented version of the powerful geographic information system marketed in Britain by Kingswood MapMechanics.
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www.homecheck.co.uk
ESRI wins multi-agency transportation contract with New York State
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in conjunction with the New York Department of Transportation (DOT) and the New York State Office for Technology (OFT) signed a $5.3 million, three-year contract with ESRI on July 19. ESRI, the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) software will team with Geographic Data Technology, Inc. (GDT); Applied GIS; Bowne Management Systems; Oracle Corporation; and Dell Computer Corporation to provide software, application and data development, hardware, and training for the implementation of a geographic accident location information system. ESRI's strength in developing superior GIS technology and working with solution partners stood out in the selection process as well as its experience in transportation and offset geocoding. ESRI's team for this project includes nationally recognized leaders. GDT of Lebanon, New Hampshire, will work with ESRI to provide New York State with a geometrically enhanced 1:24,000-scale, updated road centerline database along with additional thematic layers to assist in the coding process. Applied GIS of Schenectady, New York, will provide local support for software installation, training, and testing. Bowne Management Systems, of Mineola, New York, will design, develop, and implement client applications as well as an interface to the New York City street system.
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www.esri.com
GlobeXplorer signs deal with Grubb & Ellis Company to deliver online aerial images
GlobeXplorer, Inc., a leading technology company that distributes interactive aerial photos via the Internet has announced that it has begun delivering its aerial images to Grubb & Ellis Company, global business advisors for commercial andcorporate real estate issues. The two companies struck an agreement that enables Grubb & Ellis to access aerial images over the Internet using proprietary technology developed by GlobeXplorer. Further terms were not disclosed. Grubb & Ellis said it will use GlobeXplorer's interactive aerial images to showcase properties to clients, supplement existing maps and information resources, conduct property research, and print images for use in presentations. The images are being delivered over the Internet to hundreds of transaction professionals, research and marketing professionals in Grubb & Ellis offices throughout the United States.
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http://www.globexplorer.com/
Municipal Software announces CityView User Conference
CityView User Conference to be held in Boston, MA on November 29 and 30, 2001. This conference will feature CityView Integration and the Web, with the launch of CityView 8.NET. Presentations will outline the current and future status of 8.NET development. Other presentations give explanations and examples of how CityView has been used to integrate with other applications and other databases for the delivery and sharing of real-time information.
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http://www.municipalsoftware.com/eventsboston.html
Asia News
China's Information Industry to Widen
Chinese Governments in 24 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have decided to give priority to their informatization processes, officials said.
Relatively better-off places in eastern coastal regions are expected to take the lead by promoting their information industry, while the comparatively underdeveloped central and western regions will be given support to keep the pace, said Zhao Xiaofan, deputy director of the State Informatization Promotion Office.
Addressing a forum Tuesday in Beijing focusing on the information industry, Zhao said never before had informatization been paid such great attention in China. More and more local governments are mapping out blueprints for informatization development in their localities.
Beijing plans to build more than 10 micro-chip production lines, each following international standards. Its ambitious goal is to build itself into a micro-electronics industrial base as well as a leader in that field in China or even the world. East China's Shanghai Municipality, Zhejiang Province and South China's Guangdong Province have all joined in the competition.
In May, Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan announced that his ministry had clearly raised the goal of using informatization as a major force to push the industrialization of China, a country that has seen dramatic rapid development of its information industry. Statistics show that China has become the world's largest cellular phone market. Its mobile phone users surpassed those in the United State in July.
By the end of 2000, China had recorded more than 230 million fixed-phone users. Within the next five years, the amount of mobile phone users is expected to hit 500 million, and the information industry is expected to increase by at least 20 percent annually.
Source: China Daily 10/10/2001
